Peter Vidani: Archive

Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others with vocals by Michael McDonald

If you haven’t heard the original, I’m not sure there’s much surprise when his voice comes on. If you have heard the original, it’s pretty weird the first time you hear it. Especially if, like me, you read a review that said it sounds like “your dad trying to sing Radiohead.”

But after the first play, and maybe the second, it really grows on you and you eventually forget what it sounded like without him.

I’m so tired I could stay up all night.

“Anton Newcombe doesn’t give a fuck what you think.” —

Peter (via pacificmidwest)

I like to think this is true, but then I think of the scene where he was performing with his sister, and someone shouted “Fuck your brother’s music, you rock!” and he, in usual form, challenged the man “in the dark to come forward please,” and then “a little closer to the stage where I can see you,” and then kicked him in the head with his boot. And the guy, now in the light of both the cameras and the stage, just says, “I just got kicked in the fucking head!”

And that’s one of many times you’re led to believe he does actually give a fuck what you think. If you strip the footage down to just the moments he’s in front of the camera, 50% would be him caring with all his heart about the songs he writes and how they’re performed on stage, and 50% would be him throwing equipment (and biting and kicking and punching) his band members for disagreeing with him. But like 50% of the time they’re fighting it’s either because he’s too high to work with anyone, or they’d like to take him down a level and test his genius. And he gets this, why they do this, and so he bites them in the ribs.

This is the story, in DiG!, of Anton Newcombe and his band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and why they could never have the success of their counterpart, The Dandy Warhols; shot over the course of seven years by Ondi Timoner.

How many days of my life will I spend trying to grab 1px lines and the resize anchors on the sides of text boxes? How many people will have to die?

Getting completely drenched walking back from David’s house. Never walk back from David’s house.

“Show me someone who thinks the best things in life are free and I'll show you someone doesn't drive a convertible.” —Meeting Guy

“People in LA have no clue with the slaw. Just do whatever you want? Is that it? It’s not a fucking cabbage salad.” —Josh Rachford: How to know the BBQ place you are about to eat in sucks

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New business idea

Ever wonder if your apartment smells? Hire me and I’ll come over and tell you the truth.

“Tweetie 2 simply took this idea from Tweetie 1, that reloading was simply “loading newer”, and “loading newer” put new messages at the top of the list… and activated the action based on a finger motion that you were already doing. Why make the user stop scrolling, lift their finger, then tap a button? Why not have them continue the gesture that they are already in the process of making? When I want to see newer stuff, I scroll up. So I made scrolling itself the gesture.” —Loren Brichter, Tweetie Reloaded: An Interview with Loren Brichter

Plans (Grizzly Bear cover) Band of Horses

Band Of Horses - Plans (Grizzly Bear cover)

Why are people cheering outside? Was there another baseball?

“I remember: I called my dad, ‘Dad, I think 50 people are following my blog.’ ” —Overheard at a Tumblr meetup.

“One should not be intimidated by Tuscan Whole Milk. Nor should one prejudge, despite the fact that Tuscan is non-vintage and comes in such large containers. Do not be fooled: this is not a jug milk. I always find it important to taste milk using high-quality stemware -- this is milk deserving of something better than a Flintstones plastic tumbler. One should pour just a small dollop and swirl it in the glass -- note the coating and look for clots or discoloration. And the color -- it should be opaque, and very, very white. Now, immerse your nose in the glass and take a whiff. Tuscan transports you instantly to scenic hill towns in central Italy (is that Montepulciano I detect?) --- there is the loamy clay, the green grass of summer days, the towering cypress. And those gentle hints of Italian flowers -- wild orchids, sunflowers, poppies. Then, one takes in the thick liquid and lets it roll across and under the tongue -- what is that? perhaps a hint of a nutty Edam cheese? With Tuscan, you feel the love of every dairyperson involved -- from the somewhat sad and deranged farmhand shovelling steaming cowpies to the bored union milk maiden dreaming of leaving this soul crushing life behind for a job waiting tables for obnoxious American tourists in Siena. But not too fast -- sip gently, slowly, or one is in danger of not only missing the subtleties of the milk's texture and its terroir, but -- if chilled too long -- also of giving oneself a blinding ice cream headache. Nay, savor the goodness that only dairymen and dairywomen working at the apex of their craft can deliver. Tuscan is best drunk young -- no, no, don't cellar this gem -- I guarantee you'll be sorry if you do. I recommend pairing with freshly baked macadamia nut scones. Milk Expectorator gives this one a 92.” —Amazon reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk via Meaghano

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Talking Heads - Found A Job

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Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes

“Go baseball!! ” —Marco

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Gossip - Heavy Cross (Fred Falke Remix)

This song forever. What face do you make when you hear this?